Do you ever long for an honest opinion about the best
beaches? In OC, people say the beaches are nice, but everybody has a
favorite place...and Dubai ranks high.

How do Orange County
beaches stack up? People love the weather best. The water's a bit
chilly, they say, though they don't mind summers when the temps hit around
70 degrees F. The video from OC Beaches above shows a guy who's been
to Dubai, his favorite beach. He said the weather is spectacular, the
sand is soft and white...almost like powder (wow!) And the water
temperature is warm...it's almost like a bath. In fact, they have
shark nets. Sharks have taken a liking to humans, finding them tasty.

The shark bites at
Orange County beaches are extremely rare. Occasionally a surfer
will have their board chomped into by a shark but that doesn't happen
very often either.

How do Dubai beaches
stack up to OC beaches?

Dubai beaches have
softer sand and the water is turquoise: Dubai has a number of
excellent beaches along Jumeira Road. Divided by hotels and private
clubs, . The Jumeira beaches offer public access beaches with soft white
sand, and shallow warm water in the Arabian Gulf.

Orange County
California beaches have coarser, medium colored sand. The water ranges
from green to deep blue, to deep aqua. OC beaches are mostly public,
with a few areas with homes such as Newport Beach's Emerald Cove
obstructing the access to the public beach below. The ocean shelf is
deeper and the water is colder.

Dubai is located on the Eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, in the
South West corner of the Arabian Gulf.

Orange County is
located on the Western coast of the United States near the southern
border of the country, with beaches located on the Pacific Ocean.

Weather: Dubai enjoys 365 days of warm sunshine, with cooler evenings
and occasional showers in the months between November to March. Orange
County has over 320 days of sunshine with cooler evenings and rare
(occasional rain) in the months between November and March (very
similar). Temperatures in Dubai are slightly warmer and more humid than
Orange County. Temps range from 50 degrees (10 degree Celsius) low to
104 (40 C.). Orange County temps range from 42 low to 95 high and on
rare occasion (one or two days per year) the weather may top 100.
Average summer temps are around 76 in Orange County.

Rain: While Dubai is
arid with little rainfall (13 centimetres) or 5 inches per year,
Orange County is also an arrid, semi-desert region with normally 11
inches of rain, though in 2007, the rainfall to July was the lowest on
history with around 3 inches (7 cenitmetres).

Population: Dubai is home to a little less than 1 million residents with
79% of the population employed. Orange County is home to around 3
million population with around 75% of the population employed.